A/N: don't you just love it when you're reading a really cool fic, an the chapters just keep coming and coming? I love it, it gives me such a buzz...
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"Ginny?"
"Yes Ron?"
"Where were you last night?"
"Library, Ron."
"But-"
"Ron! Over here!" Harry's call pulled Ron over to Hermione and Harry, further up the table. They'd left her out, again... not that it mattered to her anymore... they were so pathetic, so young and blissfully innocent. Sure, they reckoned they'd been through things, but that was nothing on what was promised for the 'golden trio'...
Sitting down somewhere along the table she dwelled on her thoughts. The rush to the library, then to the common room had been exhausting, yet her energy had been replenished by her Lord. She had been surprised that Dumbledore hadn't already pulled her up, and demanded an explanation as to why she had awoken a dark lord, and become his consort. She felt herself shrouded by dark shadows, yet no one seemed to have noticed. No one ever noticed...
A pair of eyes caught her eyes, and her vision homed in on the cool grey orbs of Draco Malfoy. He wanted to talk. Why else would he have bothered looking at her? She simply nodded, and left the hall, leaving her breakfast untouched and a space on the bench that was soon filled again.
"Milady." Ginny's eyes narrowed.
"What have you eaten, Malfoy?"
"Respect.
"Bullshit."
"I am sincere, milady. I will be honest with you. Our prospects look ill-fated, and our only path is your trust."
"You don't fancy having your pretty little wrists burned with His mark?"
"Yes, milady."
"So you suck up to a future queen ensuring a blemish-free wrist?"
"Milady, please understand, i mean no disrespect, or dishonour on my family. I are sympathetic to you- His cause, yet still show an amount of reluctance. We have our honour, Ginevra. Please at least give me the time to contemplate the lose of it."
"This means eternal trust, Draco. This means more than some pathetic vengeance path you have going with your father. You will gain my trust, and I yours. Betray me and feel my wrath of the gods below, amigere'..."
((Trusted one))
Draco was sat back, in the Slytherin common room, wondering how the fuck they had sorted that out so easily, when Blaise stormed in, in an evident rage.
"How the-"
"Hush! Not here, Blaise." And after dragging him from the common room, and into an empty potions classroom, he slammed the door shut, and placed a heavy silencing charm around the doorway. "Now, what angers you so?"
"Father! He attempted to pull me out of Hogwarts!"
"He dared to do what?!?"
"Pull me out! Make me stay at home all year, so I could 'learn proper respect for our master'"
"But- I"
"Tom, Draco, it was Tom. He's told both our fathers of yesterday night... he knows of our plan..." Blaise's voice was thick with anger and pain.
"How could he have the nerve?"
"How do you think? Tom. That half-blood scum is tainting our families Draco. We must rid of him soon, lest our family names be tainted forever."
"If he was so angered as to come here, why do you stand with me now?"
"Dumbledore..."
"He defended you?!?"
"He knows of our intentions Draco, he told me himself. He knows of our want to rid ourselves of that half-blood scum, and will not stand in our way..."
"Well, at least that shows how little faith he has of Potter-"
"Not important Draco!"
"Yes well this is. I caught Ginevra at breakfast, while you were at Dumbledore's office."
"Oh? And what did our future queen say to our proposal? I see no slap marks..."
"Yes, well, she took it... strangely well. It was almost like she was expecting us to say something."
"Was she put up to it?"
"No. her emotions were true. She spoke a word in the Pure Tongue, Blaise. You and I both know that emotion is not forced..."
"What did she say in the old tongue?"
"Amigere'."
"Trusted one..."
"Exactly..."
"And what of her trusting me?"
"I know not. She simply left, after speaking with me."
"But does this mean our plan may work?"
"Yes, except for the minor detail of Tom knowing our plan. And the fact he told your father... and most likely mine..."
"We should wait, and see if our Lady's actions will halt your murder..."
"Agreed, you know what my father's like..."
Indeed Blaise did. So many times Draco had come to him for help, with his bruises and cuts. Draco never told him it was his father, and Blaise almost snorted at Draco's pride. Who else would give him those bruises? And then survive to do it again? But Blaise respected his privacy, and figured that Draco would tell him one day. Maybe after Draco had killed Lucius like Blaise knew he wanted to do...
"So, what do we do next?"
"I guess we must wait. We wait for my father's reaction. If he does not reaction, Riddle did not tell my father and he is simply toying with us."
"Bastard half-blood scum."
"Indeed, now let us not waste anymore time here, and return to the common room. I am freezing!"
"Idiot... ice prince my ass."
"Your ass will be the only thing left, twat, if you don't shut up."
"But I know you love me really, drakey-baby." Blaise wiggled his hips. Draco simply growled and replied with:-
"Wait till I tell Pansy you've been hitting on me..."
"Twat you will tell her no such thing."
"Yes, but you never know... my tongue might slip..."
"And then both my girlfriend and I will tear it out and eat it for dinner." Draco simply laughed.
"Yes, but it's worth it, just to see you acting camp, Blaise." Draco dodged a fist.
"Drop down and die, Draco, right now..."
She missed him. They had had many conversations before she brought him into the world, and now he was gone, she felt empty and alone. There was no Tom to comfort her, whisper in her mind of how things would be in the future. And Draco's approach brought it alarmingly close to home. Already he saw her as his Queen, although it could just be his scheme. She knew she would have to wait until she left school, until she would be reunited with her Lord, yet it seemed such a long time to wait before she could lie with him, with no regard for anyone else... the ache in her mind and chest told her she needed her sleep, with or without Tom, and so, sighing gently, she climbed the Gryffindor dormitory steps, and clambered into her bed.